As the curtain falls down on 2005, Star India COO Sameer Nair gives Indiantelevision.com his take on what the year has been and what the industry...
As the curtain falls down on 2005, Star India COO Sameer Nair gives Indiantelevision.com his take on what the year has been and what the industry...
"We launched Star One with the purpose of wooing those audiences who showed this tendency to break away from Star Plus. Star Plus in the Hindi...
“And the ‘word’ lost the struggle with the ‘visual’.” If one sees the context in which this observation was made by a young Bharatiya Janata Party...
“And the ‘word’ lost the struggle with the ‘visual’.” If one sees the context in which this observation was made by a young Bharatiya Janata Party...
Hathway Cable & Datacom CEO K Jayaraman has been in the thick of things in the rapidly evolving Indian cable TV market. His network has in...
The year 2005 was a mixed bag for cable TV in India. Subscription revenues grew 20 per cent to around Rs 81 billion, according to industry...
As 2005 comes to an end, professionals in the media sector must be rubbing their eyes in disbelief looking at the numbers springing up from their...
Spatial Access Solutions managing partner Meenakshi Madhvani gives a low down on what the critical drivers will be in the television and media space over the...
As we enter 2005, one cannot help but reflect on the number of changes that this year brought about and the hope that 2005 holds for...
As we enter 2005, one cannot help but reflect on the number of changes that this year brought about and the hope that 2005 holds for...
Among the English entertainment channels there was a fair bit of activity that Star Movies did. In order to add variety it aired the TV series...
13. LAXMI N GOEL, ZEE TELEFILMS’ DIRECTOR NEWS GROUP For goading Zee News, a laggard in the news genre, into becoming a competitive force. If Zee...
Maximum Impact! That is the principal criteria that has decided indiantelevision.com’s definitive Top 20 list of the people who mattered in the television firmament in the...
13. LAXMI N GOEL, ZEE TELEFILMS’ DIRECTOR NEWS GROUP For goading Zee News, a laggard in the news genre, into becoming a competitive force. If Zee...
5. DR PRANNOY ROY, NDTV PRESIDENT For taking NDTV India into a clear and undisputed second rung position behind leader Aaj Tak in the Hindi news...
17. AVEEK SARKAR, OWNER-PUBLISHER ANAND BAZAR PATRIKA GROUP For putting his stamp of authority on Star News and planning launch of a Bengali news channel on...
5. DR PRANNOY ROY, NDTV PRESIDENT For taking NDTV India into a clear and undisputed second rung position behind leader Aaj Tak in the Hindi news...
9. RAJAT JAIN, DISNEY INDIA MANAGING DIRECTOR For making the big leap to Walt Disney to head its diversified operations in India. Contending for that coveted...
Regulation, as opposed to the market, largely determined trends in India’s cable and satellite distribution business over the past 12 months. The Telecom Regulatory Authority of...
17. AVEEK SARKAR, OWNER-PUBLISHER ANAND BAZAR PATRIKA GROUP For putting his stamp of authority on Star News and planning launch of a Bengali news channel on...
Maximum Impact! That is the principal criteria that has decided indiantelevision.com’s definitive Top 20 list of the people who mattered in the television firmament in the...
9. RAJAT JAIN, DISNEY INDIA MANAGING DIRECTOR For making the big leap to Walt Disney to head its diversified operations in India. Contending for that coveted...
Maximum Impact! That is the principal criteria that has decided indiantelevision.com’s definitive Top 20 list of the people who mattered in the television firmament in the...
It was once a whole lot easier. Three years ago, broadcasters would press for more subscribers and rates, multi system operators (MSOs) would ask for an...
It was once a whole lot easier. Three years ago, broadcasters would press for more subscribers and rates, multi system operators (MSOs) would ask for an...
December, 2003. Give us some more time and next year, we would take issues like CAS, DTH, second phase of FM radio and the matter of...
December, 2003. Give us some more time and next year, we would take issues like CAS, DTH, second phase of FM radio and the matter of...
The year gone by saw more and more Indian television channels featuring news and current affairs programmes entering an already-crowded space. Apprehensions of an imminent shake-out...
The year 2005 was a mixed bag for cable TV in India. Subscription revenues grew 20 per cent to around Rs 81 billion, according to industry...
The sports broadcast business in 2004 will be remembered for one dominant issue. The great Indian cricket rights trick. As in it had many a twist...
The sports broadcast business in 2004 will be remembered for one dominant issue. The great Indian cricket rights trick. As in it had many a twist...
India is not a sporting nation. Nothing sells in India except cricket. Haven’t we heard these before? A nation of a billion people is yet to...
India is not a sporting nation. Nothing sells in India except cricket. Haven’t we heard these before? A nation of a billion people is yet to...
The battleground this year will be in the regional space. Mainline broadcasters like Zee Telefilms, Star India and MTV have designs to spread south, the most...
The battleground this year will be in the regional space. Mainline broadcasters like Zee Telefilms, Star India and MTV have designs to spread south, the most...
As the curtains fall down on 2004, the all important figures are also out — that of the Top 10 categories of advertisers on television and...
As the curtains fall down on 2004, the all important figures are also out — that of the Top 10 categories of advertisers on television and...
The year certainly belonged to the sindoor-n-saga joint family opiates (four years and counting); but it also saw the competition hotting up and general entertainment channels...
Show me the money. That was what ad sales execs in television networks managed quite well, thank you in 2004. It was a year that witnessed...
Show me the money. That was what ad sales execs in television networks managed quite well, thank you in 2004. It was a year that witnessed...
The year gone by achieved a significant benchmark in the television media space. Whether one talks about the burst of different genres of television channels or...
MUMBAI: News (channels) continued to make news. And, that seemed to be the underlying theme throughout 2004 for the news genre. Whether it was the revised...
News (channels) continued to make news. And, that seemed to be the underlying theme throughout 2004 for the news genre. Whether it was the revised uplinking...
Reading media interviews on three media websites – this one, agencyfaqs.com, and exchange4media.com -makes one thing very clear. Issues beyond the market, the advertiser, the seller,...
2002 will certainly be different. That was what the competition were convinced would be the case at the start of the year. And why not? Kaun...
The idiot box as it is called, is after all an inevitable part of our lives, and its essence is not in its being but all...
* Dearth of novel programming on television in 2002 * Production houses eye feature film making as viable proposition * Smaller production houses got platform in...
MUMBAI: It’s certainly been quite a year. Twelve months ago, I was at IMG-TWI in Delhi, where I’d been for the past 8 years in a...
Celebrities money power and last-minute deals ruled the show * The year 2002 witnessed the television debut of the greatest Indian cricketer of all times –...

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